Often we use the terms emotion and feeling interchangebly. Feelings are sensations that occur in our body on an energetic level. We often associate that sensation with a label that we call an emotion. When we feel a tightness or racing in our chest or a clenching of the teeth we may label that feeling as the emotion of anger. Someone else may label the same sensation or feeling as the emotion of excitement. Or you may experience the emotion you label as anger with a different feeling or sensation in your body. In reality what is being experieced are feelings that have been triggered by something outside of us that have caused sensations in our body.
Or you may have had a thought about something in the moment that caused your body to manifest those sensations based on feelings you had in the past when you had that same thought. Our bodies interpret it as if it is happening today and we feel the same thing again and label it the same feeling. Because the situation or thought is similar we "feel" the sensation again and make a decision to label it as "anger." Often times we blame it on outside circumstances or the people in our lives. But it is always us that is feeling it, it is our energy. All that it is is a sensation in our body that feels like a lower or constricting energy.
If we can really understand this and begin to see that we are just energy and that our energy is either constricted in resistance or open and relaxed. We are able to understand that emotions are just labels we place on a corresponding energetic signature in our bodies.
We can then begin to do or think new things for ourselves that create different sensations in our body to change the energetic signature we are feeling in the moment if we don't like how we feel. This takes the burden of responsibility off of the people in our environment and places it solely on ourselves. That is why meditation works. It allows us to separate our thoughts from the energy we feel in our body. This lowers the feelings of resistance and allows our body to feel better, raising our vibration.
Resistance creates a lower vibration that we often associate with "negative" emotions. It is a lower fearful energy and when we feel it we cannot feel love. If we eliminate the resistance we become our true selves. Our true self can then experience what we were truly meant to feel, which is the vibration of love.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Questions
As I embark on this journey into what feels like the unknown I have felt prompted to begin asking questions. The question I have been asking myself lately is where does inspiration come from?
Deliberate creation cannot begin without a question. The question holds the answer to what is to become. When we allow ourselves just to be in the moment, random thoughts and images may come to us. But if we want to create something specific we must first allow ourselves to ask a question. This is what deliberate creation is about. It is about knowing what we want and making a choice to create it. By first deciding what question we want answered we open ourselves up to something larger that can begin to assist us in our creation.
If we make a conscious decision to ask the question and look for the answers we are much more likely to see them. We are asking ourselves questions all of the time. But often we do it unconsciously so we are not conscious of the answers when they come. We have to be conscious and specific about the questions we ask ourselves to really be active participants in our creativity.
I have noticed lately that I have become increasingly forgetful. It is as though I cannot access areas of thought that I once did. My thoughts are so grounded in the now that it is difficult to retrieve information from the past. Yesterday I was looking for the ear piece to my phone. I couldn't find it anywhere. I could not remember where I had put it. It had disappeared several days before. I thought it was gone for good and I had lost it.
Out of the frustration over losing things I have started requesting that the angels help me find what I have lost. So yesterday I asked "Where is my ear piece?" I was given a clear message that the ear piece was under the seat in the car. I went out to my car and looked under the drivers seat. It wasn't there. Then I looked under the passengers seat. There is was all tangled up and stuck in between the seats. Somewhere I would never have found it on my own. I was shocked and started laughing out loud as I pulled it from under the seat. I realized in that moment that the angels are here to help me all of the time. My job is to ask the questions!
The new paradigm is telling me by disconnecting my memory, if I am to exist in it I must use my intuition or divine guidance to create my life. In the forgetting was the answer to the question I asked, where does inspiration come from? Call it God, the Divine, the angels, muses, or just call it my intuition. It is my higher self speaking to me in that still small voice in my head that guides me to make greater choices in your life. It is separate from my ego and the chatter that cause me to become fearful. It is the part of me that answers the questions in a way that I never imagined was be possible. It is my divine guidance.
Our minds are like computers. The quality of the question defines the quality of the answer. The more focused the question, the more focused the answer. This is how we create by asking questions and we create in a more defined way by asking more focused questions. If I tell myself I can't do this, that is what will be my answer. You can't do this! If I ask myself, how can I do this and remain open and trust that the answers will come I will begin to see the answers in my experience. Or if I listen closely I will hear my inner voice tell me what the answers are.
The trick is to discern for ourselves how that inner voice speaks to us. For me, it is a quiet voice that I hear in my right ear. I hear it in a different way then the sounds that come from this world. I hear it from within my heart and my mind somehow discerns it. My minds chatter has to be still to hear it. I have to make a conscious decision to listen to it. It is subtle and I have to be open and allow it to talk to me. It won't force itself on me. It is a practice and the gift for me in becoming forgetful has been that it has taught me to discern it.
Action Step:
Begin each day with a question you want answered. Ask you Divine Guidance the question. Now quiet your mind and listen. Access your right brain. Depending on how you interpret your own guidance it may come in thought or images. Write down any thoughts or images you that come to you in those first few moments after you ask yourself the question. Follow the prompting if it is appropriate. If you don't get any answers or you don't feel prompted to act on them, go about your day expecting to get your answers but let go of the question. Trust that the answers will appear in your thoughts or your experience. It can happen either way. At the end of the day or first thing tomorrow, look back at your question. Did you get any answers? Write them down. You don't have to know what you are going to do with it yet. Or you may want to act on the answers. Trust inspiration and act according to how you feel in the moment. That is your creativity speaking through you. It is inspiration. You have created the answers by asking the question.
Deliberate creation cannot begin without a question. The question holds the answer to what is to become. When we allow ourselves just to be in the moment, random thoughts and images may come to us. But if we want to create something specific we must first allow ourselves to ask a question. This is what deliberate creation is about. It is about knowing what we want and making a choice to create it. By first deciding what question we want answered we open ourselves up to something larger that can begin to assist us in our creation.
If we make a conscious decision to ask the question and look for the answers we are much more likely to see them. We are asking ourselves questions all of the time. But often we do it unconsciously so we are not conscious of the answers when they come. We have to be conscious and specific about the questions we ask ourselves to really be active participants in our creativity.
I have noticed lately that I have become increasingly forgetful. It is as though I cannot access areas of thought that I once did. My thoughts are so grounded in the now that it is difficult to retrieve information from the past. Yesterday I was looking for the ear piece to my phone. I couldn't find it anywhere. I could not remember where I had put it. It had disappeared several days before. I thought it was gone for good and I had lost it.
Out of the frustration over losing things I have started requesting that the angels help me find what I have lost. So yesterday I asked "Where is my ear piece?" I was given a clear message that the ear piece was under the seat in the car. I went out to my car and looked under the drivers seat. It wasn't there. Then I looked under the passengers seat. There is was all tangled up and stuck in between the seats. Somewhere I would never have found it on my own. I was shocked and started laughing out loud as I pulled it from under the seat. I realized in that moment that the angels are here to help me all of the time. My job is to ask the questions!
The new paradigm is telling me by disconnecting my memory, if I am to exist in it I must use my intuition or divine guidance to create my life. In the forgetting was the answer to the question I asked, where does inspiration come from? Call it God, the Divine, the angels, muses, or just call it my intuition. It is my higher self speaking to me in that still small voice in my head that guides me to make greater choices in your life. It is separate from my ego and the chatter that cause me to become fearful. It is the part of me that answers the questions in a way that I never imagined was be possible. It is my divine guidance.
Our minds are like computers. The quality of the question defines the quality of the answer. The more focused the question, the more focused the answer. This is how we create by asking questions and we create in a more defined way by asking more focused questions. If I tell myself I can't do this, that is what will be my answer. You can't do this! If I ask myself, how can I do this and remain open and trust that the answers will come I will begin to see the answers in my experience. Or if I listen closely I will hear my inner voice tell me what the answers are.
The trick is to discern for ourselves how that inner voice speaks to us. For me, it is a quiet voice that I hear in my right ear. I hear it in a different way then the sounds that come from this world. I hear it from within my heart and my mind somehow discerns it. My minds chatter has to be still to hear it. I have to make a conscious decision to listen to it. It is subtle and I have to be open and allow it to talk to me. It won't force itself on me. It is a practice and the gift for me in becoming forgetful has been that it has taught me to discern it.
Action Step:
Begin each day with a question you want answered. Ask you Divine Guidance the question. Now quiet your mind and listen. Access your right brain. Depending on how you interpret your own guidance it may come in thought or images. Write down any thoughts or images you that come to you in those first few moments after you ask yourself the question. Follow the prompting if it is appropriate. If you don't get any answers or you don't feel prompted to act on them, go about your day expecting to get your answers but let go of the question. Trust that the answers will appear in your thoughts or your experience. It can happen either way. At the end of the day or first thing tomorrow, look back at your question. Did you get any answers? Write them down. You don't have to know what you are going to do with it yet. Or you may want to act on the answers. Trust inspiration and act according to how you feel in the moment. That is your creativity speaking through you. It is inspiration. You have created the answers by asking the question.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
The Balance of Energy
As women in our society there is so much confusion about whether of not we should be the one to pursue a man. Do men want us to? Do we want to?
True feminine energy is about attraction and allowing. When we allow ourselves to go deeply into that awareness there is nothing to do. It all happens with grace and ease from the center of our being. Think about how we as women create life. We don't do anything once the baby is conceived until we give birth. We provide the womb and the perfect space for the child to grow. That is the truest act of creating from our feminine energy that exists. When it is time to bring that baby into the world we act by having no choice but to give birth.
So the question is who and what do we want to be in relationship. Our true nature or something else? Our society has placed so many new demands on us that it can be confusing. There has been a generation of women that emerged from rebellion that thrust us into a world of feeling like we had to do it all. We had to be feminine energy in relationship as well as masculine energy. We had to create the family as well as provide for it. We had to take care of the children and find a way to provide for them. While men for the most part continued on their path of only creating from their masculine energy by mostly only providing. And rightfully so, we had made the choice as women to change out of rebellion. We had forced it upon them.
And some men when they saw us jump in and take on their role felt less then and let go of it all. They let us take total charge. And this created exhaustion and resentment in us. It also created men that were confused about what their roles were and what we wanted in relationship. We lost balance again.
So what do we do now? What do we truly want in relationship and how do we achieve it as women?
Is it in the doing which is not our true nature or is it in the being and allowing, which is our true nature but hasn't really made us happy in the past?
Or is it in the balancing of both and will that be what creates happiness in our relationships? What does that balance mean and how do we achieve it for ourselves and in our relationships?
True feminine energy is about attraction and allowing. When we allow ourselves to go deeply into that awareness there is nothing to do. It all happens with grace and ease from the center of our being. Think about how we as women create life. We don't do anything once the baby is conceived until we give birth. We provide the womb and the perfect space for the child to grow. That is the truest act of creating from our feminine energy that exists. When it is time to bring that baby into the world we act by having no choice but to give birth.
So the question is who and what do we want to be in relationship. Our true nature or something else? Our society has placed so many new demands on us that it can be confusing. There has been a generation of women that emerged from rebellion that thrust us into a world of feeling like we had to do it all. We had to be feminine energy in relationship as well as masculine energy. We had to create the family as well as provide for it. We had to take care of the children and find a way to provide for them. While men for the most part continued on their path of only creating from their masculine energy by mostly only providing. And rightfully so, we had made the choice as women to change out of rebellion. We had forced it upon them.
And some men when they saw us jump in and take on their role felt less then and let go of it all. They let us take total charge. And this created exhaustion and resentment in us. It also created men that were confused about what their roles were and what we wanted in relationship. We lost balance again.
So what do we do now? What do we truly want in relationship and how do we achieve it as women?
Is it in the doing which is not our true nature or is it in the being and allowing, which is our true nature but hasn't really made us happy in the past?
Or is it in the balancing of both and will that be what creates happiness in our relationships? What does that balance mean and how do we achieve it for ourselves and in our relationships?
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The Void
I am feeling a sense of being almost buoyant right now. The energy feels like bobbing in water and I can't get my feet on the ground to get my footing. It is like treading water and not getting anywhere. There is an emptiness that is yearning and calling for creation. In the emptiness is a feeling that is unsettling because it holds so much potential but it is still unknown. Feelings surface that cause me to fear that what I put into that emptiness through my thoughts may hurt me again. It is the fear that my unconscious creations may come back to haunt me in the future.
So I have developed a longing to be impeccable with my thoughts and a longing to be aware of every unconscious feeling and pattern that holds me back from creating something better and brighter.
The void is a gift. A gift from the future. I see it differently then I have before in my life because I am more conscious of it. I consciously chose this void. I chose it over the mis-creations I was experiencing from the unconscious thought patterns of my past. I see now it is my future I am creating with every thought and feeling I have. It is my choice as to what that future is. I can make that choice in each moment to live in fear or in love. Whatever I choose I will create.
This void has helped me to discern those feeling that are beneath the surface. The ones that cause me to look at them and let me know...think again....this isn't what you want. How are you going to change it before you create it? What do you really want?
And in that moment I have a choice to make. I am grateful for the uneasiness and unsettling feelings. They are what cause me to allow for inspiration and they allow me to create something bigger and brighter in my future. The uneasiness is only the resistance to love yearning to be birthed through me. I embrace the not knowing for it holds all the answers to the yearning that is bringing my future into being. It is in the now and it is where inspiration and love is if I allow it.
So I have developed a longing to be impeccable with my thoughts and a longing to be aware of every unconscious feeling and pattern that holds me back from creating something better and brighter.
The void is a gift. A gift from the future. I see it differently then I have before in my life because I am more conscious of it. I consciously chose this void. I chose it over the mis-creations I was experiencing from the unconscious thought patterns of my past. I see now it is my future I am creating with every thought and feeling I have. It is my choice as to what that future is. I can make that choice in each moment to live in fear or in love. Whatever I choose I will create.
This void has helped me to discern those feeling that are beneath the surface. The ones that cause me to look at them and let me know...think again....this isn't what you want. How are you going to change it before you create it? What do you really want?
And in that moment I have a choice to make. I am grateful for the uneasiness and unsettling feelings. They are what cause me to allow for inspiration and they allow me to create something bigger and brighter in my future. The uneasiness is only the resistance to love yearning to be birthed through me. I embrace the not knowing for it holds all the answers to the yearning that is bringing my future into being. It is in the now and it is where inspiration and love is if I allow it.
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